Hacker News: rossant

New comment by rossant in "Pacing the frontier"

rossant — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:06:54 +0000

This is serious. We're in uncharted territory. The geopolitical context is already complicated enough that we shouldn't be dismissive of such a rapid technological race. I'm glad AI leaders are taking it seriously. I'm surprised so many HN commenters aren't.

On the other hand, I'm pessimistic about initiatives like this being effective on a global scale (though they could certainly work at the national level).

New comment by rossant in "Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library"

rossant — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:39:19 +0000

See also Datoviz for 3D support in addition to fast, scalable, GPU-based 2D visualization: https://datoviz.org/ (I'm the main developer)

New comment by rossant in "Don't put your name to bot-written content"

rossant — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:19:25 +0000

What if my prose is AI-assisted, but it's the result of hours of conversations with an agent, with constant back-and-forth, dozens of iterative rewrites, and refinement until the structure, tone, and style are exactly right? Focusing on the intent and the desired outcome rather than manually laying out one word after another.

New comment by rossant in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

rossant — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:44:13 +0000

This is talking to an AI colleague and not to a chatbot. That's how you use frontier models or coding agents nowadays to do good work.

New comment by rossant in "Why write code in 2026"

rossant — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:32:08 +0000

I don't write code anymore, because AI writes better code than me. I could write code, but the next AI would find 10 ways to make it better and more consistent with the rest of the AI-generated codebase. So I just let it write all of it. However, I inspect it all carefully and I constantly asks it to reflect on the code quality, to refactor, to reorganize, to make the code as good as possible. The end result is code that is much better than anything I could have written myself.

And I should mention that I have 30+ years of programming experience.

New comment by rossant in "98% Isn't Much"

rossant — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:15:24 +0000

aka expectation

New comment by rossant in "Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)"

rossant — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:06:07 +0000

I fully agree. I loathe slow software. I hate bloat. I love fast software. As a developer, I'm completely, even irrationally, obsessed with speed, performance optimization, and profiling. I wish more developers felt the same way.

New comment by rossant in "Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents"

rossant — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:04:45 +0000

Pretty sure this website is satire.

New comment by rossant in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

rossant — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:36:07 +0000

That, and also the very long comma-separated lists with sometimes 10+ items.

New comment by rossant in "David Beazley – Programming Courses"

rossant — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:34:46 +0000

That's one way to see it. Can't we also imagine that more and more people now rely on AI rather than humans to learn programming (or more accurately learn vibe-coding)?

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

rossant — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:51:11 +0000

Article URL: https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685558

Points: 324

# Comments: 126

New comment by rossant in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

rossant — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:51:04 +0000

Interesting. It makes me think of the idea of fighting piracy by providing a solid legal alternative through streaming platforms, etc.

New comment by rossant in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

rossant — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:00:56 +0000

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

New comment by rossant in "Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux"

rossant — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:17:57 +0000

Brings me back! Well done!

New comment by rossant in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

rossant — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:20:16 +0000

Looking at him I can't believe he's 100. I haven't seen that many centenaries that look that fit.

New comment by rossant in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

rossant — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:13:12 +0000

One can understand why Internet access is useful, but why would it have to be mandatory?

Ask HN: Agent-Developed Libraries?

rossant — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:09:40 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046364

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rossant in "Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)"

rossant — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:30:43 +0000

They likely encode not URLs for the public, but internal identifiers that are only useful internally.

New comment by rossant in "Agent Skills"

rossant — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:31:15 +0000

Exactly. Glad to see someone else articulate this so clearly.

New comment by rossant in "Why TUIs are back"

rossant — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:39:03 +0000

I think TUIs have started to become popular again a few years ago, before Claude Code was released?